Dr. Ebead has been awarded the Certificate for Excellence in Research/Teaching at the College of Engineering, QU, 2016 and Dean’s Award in Teaching “Targeting Excellence in Teaching and Learning”, QU, 2015.

a. Courses taught at Qatar University

1.       Advanced Special Topics in Civil Engineering CVEN651 (Post Graduate, PG)

2.       Finite Element Method, CVEN504 (PG)

3.       Design of Reinforced Concrete Members, CVEN320 (Undergraduate, UG)

4.       Design of Reinforced Concrete structures, CVEN422 (Undergraduate, UG)

5.       Structural & Architectural Form 2 – RC design, ARCT 340 (UG)

6.       Analysis of Structures, CVEN 220 (UG)

7.       Civil Engineering Design Project I, CVEN401 (UG)

8.       Civil Engineering Design Project II, CVEN402 (UG)

9.       Structural & Architectural Form 2 – Steel & Shell Structures, ARCT 341 (UG)

10.   Engineering Graphics, GENG111 (UG)

b. Courses taught at the United Arab Emirates University

1.       Computer Application in CE (PG)

2.       Finite Element Method: Theory and Applications (PG)

3.       Reinforced Concrete Design II: (UG)

4.       Structural Analysis (UG)

5.       Matrix Structural Analysis (UG)

6.       Reinforced Concrete design for Architectural Engineering (UG)

7.       Statics (UG)                                       

8.       Mechanics of Materials (UG)

9.       Graduation Project I (UG)            

10.   Graduation Project II (UG)

c. Course Development and teaching practices

·         Dr. Ebead has been a dedicated teacher as recognized by the appreciation of the students and the college. He received two teaching awards for his excellence in teaching in both 2015 and 2016.

·         Dr. Ebead always complete a full course portfolio/file that includes the following components:

1-      Course Syllabus

2-      Course Teaching Philosophy

3-      Teaching Material (Slides, Lecture Notes, etc.)

4-      Copies of Assessment Tools

a.    Always uses a mix of assessment tools that include:

                                 i.   Assignments

                               ii.   In-class activities

                             iii.   Quizzes

                             iv.   Midterm exam

                               v.   Project

1.    Design

2.    Lab

                             vi.   Final exam

5-      Course Outcome–Assessment Matrix

6-      Graded Samples of Student’s Work

7-      Lab. Materials (Including Graded Samples of Students Lab. Work)

8-      Reflections on Course Improvement

·         Dr. Ebead developed the entire course materials and PowerPoint Presentation for most of his courses particularly,

1-      Reinforced concrete design courses

2-      Analysis of structures courses

3-      All graduate courses he taught (listed above)

4-      Engineering drawings and graphics courses

·         Dr. Ebead benefits from the Peer Observation Program, a three-step process that involves a pre-observation meeting, the class observation and a post observation meeting.

·         Dr. Ebead communicates effectively with the students through the Blackboard System where all announcement, materials, questions and answers are shared among the course participants.

·         Dr. Ebead also encourages students to send questions via email and he answers them immediately as they are always taken priority. He also shares good questions with other students to benefit.

·         Dr. Ebead adopts problem-solving strategy in some of his courses and encourages group work in all of his courses. He progressively integrating other learning techniques into his class such as flipped classroom.

·         Dr. Ebead uses varied assessment methods to enhance the student learning of the course. These assessment methods include home assignments, in-class activities, quizzes, midterm exam, project (design and/or lab), and final exam. He always devotes time to discuss the results of the assessment methods with the students either in-class or in his office.

·         Dr. Ebead is consistently praised by his students through personal meetings and emails. In addition, the student evaluations of his teaching indicate consistent and steadily increasing student satisfaction of the learning experience with Dr. Ebead.

·         Dr. Ebead deals with end-of-semester surveys of course learning outcomes very seriously and he uses processed results of these surveys to continuously improve his course offering.

·         Dr. Ebead uses learning activities to encourage student engagement. In several circumstances, Dr. Ebead used analogies between the lectured concepts and real-life applications.

·         Dr. Ebead integrated creative technology in teaching and learning. For example, Dr. Ebead used a touch screen tablet to deliver his lecture slides with an attractive fashion to add to the content and to produce explanation easily and share edited and marked-up notes with the students. 

·         Dr. Ebead has often utilized YouTube videos related to the lecture topic to attract the attention and interest of students.

d. Advising: Other than Research Direction

Undergraduate level

·         At QU, Dr. Ebead is an academic Advisor for eighteen (18) undergraduate students

·         At QU, Dr. Ebead is the Program Focal Person for student advising.

·         At QU, Dr. Ebead is the program coordinator of the civil Engineering Program

·         At QU, Dr. Ebead supervises students during their civil engineering senior design project courses (CVEN401 and CVEN 402).

·         At QU, Dr. Ebead has mentored six (6) undergraduate students on UREP research grant.

·         At UAEU, Dr. Ebead was the academic advisor of students attending their Industrial Training course. 

·         At UAEU, Dr. Ebead was the academic advisor for twenty (20) students.